Poetic Style and Social Commitment in Niyi Osundare’s Songs of the Marketplace
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Abstract
This essay studies some of the poetic devices employed by Osundare to project social commitment and vision in Songs of the Marketplace . It examines how the poet’s deployment of style makes his poetry more accessible to a larger audience than that of his predecessors. Like the oral traditional performance, his poetry employs rich Yoruba oral literary devices in a way that is unique and glaringly innovative. Osundare’s radical poetic style has a clearly defined concept and role. It is also central to the resolution of the polemics of governance and politics in society. The pervasive theme of the collections remains a serious concern for hope out of the decadent situation that has eaten deep into the fabric of our social existence.
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